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...your cover story, but we need to begin to deal with the root problem: the exploding population of human beings [April 13]. How about a sterilization credit, like a carbon credit, to encourage people not to reproduce? We need to export and help finance information about all forms of birth control in all parts of the world, including the U.S. We have no trouble making decisions to limit the numbers of other species we deem overabundant, so why not our own? Ann B. Anderson, Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 5/4/2009 | See Source »

...NCNA intends to take Snowe's concerns and turn them into action. Founded by Virginia Representative Eric Cantor, the No. 2 House Republican, its birth was announced on President Obama's 100th day in office with the support of GOP leaders in both chambers as well as former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, who both spoke on Saturday alongside Cantor. The audience consisted mainly of Washington Republican consultants and Cantor supporters who received word from his e-mail listserv. The three struck a moderate tone. "It's time for us to listen, first, to learn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The GOP Plans a Rebirth, with Pepperoni and Protests | 5/4/2009 | See Source »

...example, Fofana gave his name as "Arabs, African, Revolt, Armed, Barbarian, Salafist [the literalist Muslim puritanism whose more violent incarnation is usually associated with al-Qaeda and other jihadist groups]." Later, Fofana, 28, appeared to taunt the victim's family by, among other things, giving his date of birth as Feb. 13, 2006, the date of Halimi's death. (See photographs of Nazi Germany's Kristallnacht pogrom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murder Trial Puts Focus on French Anti-Semitism | 5/3/2009 | See Source »

...being caught in places they aren’t supposed to be.”The two translations of Feydeau’s title evoke the tensions surrounding Hector Ennepeque, Feydeau’s semi-autobiographical main character, as he waits for his wife Léonie to give birth. His anxiety is exacerbated by snobby in-laws and a domineering midwife. Though the character of the midwife was a pushy Frenchwoman in the Feydeau original, Shapiro’s translation renders her a robust “German frau.” “I thought it would...

Author: By Roxanne J. Fequiere, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Belle Époque Humor Amuses in Adams | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

...exhibition, which runs through Aug. 16, marks the centenary of Bacon's birth in 1909 in Dublin. His father, a truculent British army officer turned horse trainer, shuttled the family for years between Ireland and England. But by the age of 16, Bacon was in London, and living on his own with a small allowance from his mother and the assistance of various older men. Eventually he drifted into a career as an interior decorator while trying to find his way as a painter. But it wasn't until the 1940s that he arrived at the vocabulary of tortured forms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tragic Hero: A Majestic Francis Bacon Show | 4/30/2009 | See Source »

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